2025 Vascular Research Initiatives Conference (VRIC)

Overview

Mark your calendars, the Vascular Research Initiatives Conference (VRIC) will be held a few weeks earlier this year on Tuesday, April 22, 2025!

The VRIC emphasizes the exchange of basic and translational vascular science that stimulates thoughtful discussion and motivates participants to discover solutions to important problems affecting vascular patients. The VRIC brings together vascular surgeons, vascular biologists, physicians with an interest in vascular problems, vascular surgery trainees and research trainees in vascular surgery and vascular biology.

The VRIC will be held in conjunction with the American Heart Association's Vascular Discovery 2025 Scientific Sessions From Genes to Medicine, also held at the Marriott Baltimore Waterfront (April 22-25, 2025). The SVS has teamed up with AHA to offer these two exclusive meetings in the same location and timeframe to help save attendees on travel costs; however, please note the VRIC and Vascular Discovery are two separate conferences with separate registration fees.

This year’s theme is: Deploying Multi-omics to Reveal New Therapeutic Targets in Vascular Biology.

New and evolving topics may be discussed, debated, and explored during the VRIC. Planners and faculty must facilitate engagement with these topics without advocating for or promoting practices that are not or not yet adequately based on current science, evidence, and clinical reasoning.

As a condition of its ACCME Accreditation, SVS’s CE activities will not advocate for unscientific approaches to diagnosis or therapy, or promote recommendations, treatment, or manners of practicing healthcare that are determined to have risks or dangers that outweigh the benefits or are known to be ineffective in the treatment of patients.

2025 Alexander W. Clowes Distinguished Lecturer

Ulf Hedin, MD Surgeon-Scientist, Professor, Department of Vascular Surgery Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institute Lecture Title:      From the Rat Carotid to Carotid Plaque Instability - Translational Vascular Surgery Research in the Footsteps of Dr. Clowes

2025 Translational Panel

Masanori Aikawa, MD, PhD Professor of Medicine (Harvard Medical School); Yoshihiro Miwa Endowed Chair and Founding Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Cardiovascular Sciences (Brigham and Women's Hospital) Lecture Title: A Systems Approach to Target Discovery for Inflammatory Vascular Diseases: A Focus on Macrophages in Atherosclerosis and Maladaptive Venous Grafts

Registration

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Registration questions or need to cancel? Email meetings@vascularsociety.org. Registration refund requests must be received by email by March 31, 2025. All cancellations will be processed after VRIC. You will need to check with your hotel regarding their cancellation policy.  

Attendee Housing

Attendees can now make online reservations at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront through the AHA’s Vascular Discovery Conference housing portal by clicking here. If booking by phone, you must mention you are booking as part of the AHA’s Vascular Discovery room block to get the discounted rate. The $259 + taxes/fees discounted rate is available on a first-come, first-served basis through March 31.

Baltimore Marriott Waterfront
700 Aliceanna Street
Baltimore, MD 21202, US

Questions?

Email the SVS Education Department.